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<p>Dear Lazyweb,</p>
<p>how the .... am I supposed to tell GNOME to use or not use an HTTP proxy for specific applications?</p>
<p>Sample scenario:</p>
<ul>
<li>I want to use an HTTP proxy in <a href="http://galeon.sourceforge.net/">Galeon</a> (for anonymous browsing via <a href="http://www.hermann-uwe.de/blog/howto-anonymous-communication-with-tor-some-hints-and-some-pitfalls">Tor + Privoxy</a>).</li>
<li>I do <em>not</em> want to use an HTTP proxy in <a href="http://www.gnome.org/projects/epiphany/">Epiphany</a> (normal non-torified browsing).</li>
<li>I do <em>not</em> want to use an HTTP proxy in <a href="http://www.gnome.org/projects/rhythmbox/">Rhythmbox</a> either. No need to tunnel all the Creative Commons podcasts and music I listen to through Tor.</li>
</ul>
<p>Now guess what happens when I disable the HTTP proxy in Epiphany. It's disabled in Galeon, too. Enable it in Galeon, and Rhythmbox will use the proxy (thus slowing down huge downloads for no reason). Aargh.</p>
<p>Is it really so hard to have per-application settings? I mean, this isn't exactly rocket-science, right?</p>
<p>And yes, I <em>do</em> want to use all those applications at the same time. And no, I do <em>not</em> run a full GNOME desktop environment (I use <a href="http://www.icewm.org/">IceWM</a>, thanks), so I don't care about any GNOME-Desktop-Foo solutions &mdash; I just want each of those freaking applications to have their own settings.</p>
http://hermann-uwe.de/blog/per-application-gnome-settings#commentsepiphanygaleongnomeproxyrhythmboxsettingsstupidityTue, 30 Jan 2007 22:19:13 +0100Uwe Hermann1223 at http://hermann-uwe.de